Profile

Lecturer in Physical Performance,Office Hours Monday 10-11. I am currently working on a contracted monograph on technology and performer training (Routledge, 2020) exploring the way performer training practice has developed in relation to developments in technology as well as the ways in which it can offer a space to re-hearse alternative relations to technology. The book will form part of the Routledge Series Perspectives on Performer Training, I co-edit with Dr Rebecca Loukes. I am also the editor of the Theatre Dance and Performance Training blog.

In 2017-2018 academic year, I shared a LITE Fellowship with Dr Scott Palmer on Mobile Phones and Digital Creativity. The project produced a number of outputs that can be viewed on SignalSpace. I have also convened, alongside Dr Scott McLaughlin and Dr Joslin McKinney, a series of research events on New Materialism and Artistic Practice, as part of the Sadler Series Seminars.

Since 2014 I have been developing Sonolope, a system of movement sonification. Sonolope was used in the Sonic Bodies (Being Human Festival, Leeds Art Gallery, November 2018). Sonic Bodies aimed to offer opportunities to mainstream and visually impaired audiences to engage in multisensory engagement with sculpture. Sonolope is discussed in a recent publication in International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media : http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14794713.2017.1300446 http://www.academia.edu/32117706/Making_the_Body_all_Ears_Sonolope_and_a_somatic_practice_of_really_listening.

As part of my ongoing interest in yoga and somatic practices, I explored yoga as the basis for interdisciplinary forms of creative expression in a project witth dancer and Ashtanga Yoga teacher Marie Hallager Andersen, entilted 'Two Trainers Prepare'. The project consisted of task-based explorations that Andersen and I set for each other on alternate weeks. The whole project was hosted on the Theatre Dance and Performance Training Blog.

Responsibilities

Director of Postgraduate Research Studies

Research interests

philosophy of technology, the use and making of tools in performer training and somatic practice.

20th and 21st c performer training regimes, processes and practitioners, in particular the use of psychophysical disciplines.

Yoga and somatics.

The historical, ideological and economic contexts of psychophysical practices, such as discourses of health, fitness and self-development .

Cultural Industries and performing as a form of labour.

Knowledge production in practice-based research and the use of digital technologies as a means of documentation and dissemination.

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Professional memberships

TaPRA

IFTR

SCUDD

Society of Philosophy of Technology

Student education

Director of Postgraduate Research Studies

Research groups and institutes

Bodies & Performance

Performance, Training, Preparation & Pedagogy

Current postgraduate researchers

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